Nursing Home WiFi

Try to see if you get any bars at all in his room from the wifi. A range extender will only work if there is a signal to grab on to extend. Even one bar will do. If he will use a laptop, you may also find that a different wifi adapter will pick up the signal where the internal laptop wifi receiver (and likely older version) won't. These are inexpensive and run through a USB port - but not for a tablet just a laptop. Sorry to hear your FIL has to go through this - hopefully if you can get the slightest signal you can extend it - OR demand he be moved to a room in that other wing - for his emotional health just for this reason.