Pioneering Polish elderly care operator Continuum Care has shut down after investor MCI Bioventures pulled its investment in July 2013. The company was set up by former CEO of Medicover, Agnieszka Szpara. Grzegorz Gromada at MCI had previously claimed that he expected patient growth of 50% per annum for “the next 10 to 15 years.” So what went wrong?