Grief & Bereavement, Love & Loss, Aging, Aging Parents, Death, Eldercare, Death & Grief 

Winner of 4 book awards from Writers' Digest Magazine, Foreword Magazine, Mom's Choice Awards, Indie Book Awards and Nominee for the Georgia Author of the Year, Mom Minus Dad is the only book available with more than 500 resources to assist the approximate twelve million adults who lose a parent each year and need to assist a newly widowed parent. Mom Minus Dad provides readers with practical advice on ten major parent loss topics as well as more than 500 valuable and time-saving resources including Web sites, companies, government resources, U.S. laws, books, and nonprofit organizations. Each section provides online and book resources and simple practical solutions to common problems – from finding affordable counseling to building new budgets for the widowed parent to managing changing family dynamics. Each chapter reveals ideas, relevant insights from the author’s personal experience, questions to consider, and additional resources to find specific assistance. The author of Mom Minus Dad gleaned intimate knowledgeW of balancing her own life with a newly widowed parent. Ms. Haverkampf assisted her fifty-six-year-old widowed mother in Virginia, while still running her real estate business in California, after the early unpredicted loss of her father to cancer. In her groundbreaking book, Haverkampf shares how she and her sister—both in their early thirties—found success and managed struggles during their journey after their father’s death. This is a reference guide grieving adult sons and daughters will refer to during the year after loss and years beyond. - from Amzon