It's only been a month, that's the intaking of a breath.
I know from experience that even when someone is expected to die, the actual death is a shock. And I gather your mother's passing wasn't entirely expected.
My own mother died in 1999 at the age of 82. She'd had a decline, was in and out of hospitals and rehab facilities for about three months. We really thought she'd get through this, and so her passing was a shock. So I know. I will add that if you have any religious or philosophical beliefs, go there. They will help. And if you have no such beliefs, simply fall back on the world as you know it, your mother as you remember her.
I'm finding as I get older, and I'm now 69, one of the strange things about this later stage of life is the losses. Friends die. Relatives die. Public figures die. Even though I know perfectly well, and have known for a very, very long time that this is the natural order of things, it still feels odd. 
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