Honestly, if I were working with him I would put him on a circuit training style program for the first month.
This allows the machines to give him proper form (as proper as machines can be...I know they are off) instead of jumping into freeweights, his stabilizers are probly not well. I would keep his reps and sets at 2 sets of ten to fifteen reps. More of an endurance strength type of workout.
This will get his body used to exercising again, get his joints used to moving, and get his heart used to pumping during workout.
Probly go full body two or three times per week.
this just for the first month. then move him to other splits using compounds and freeweights.
Gotta let him walk before you make him run. I do this with many men over forty that are getting back into it.
After that month he can assess where he would like to go and you two can make a program based on those goals. This may seem easy to most of us, but trust me, it won't see easy to him.
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